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> On one end of the spectrum you have tools like Notepad, where the only easter egg is that pressing F5 inserts the current time. I wonder how many people read
by cornellwright 11y ago
> On one end of the spectrum you have tools like Notepad, where the only easter egg is that pressing F5 inserts the current time.
I wonder how many people reading this just opened Notepad to try this.
- ComteDeLaFere 11y agoMe. By the way, it's 2:57 PM 2/26/2016.
- edgarvaldes 11y agoIt's a nice and simple way to log your activities. I use it all the time. I would use Notepadd++ if it had this as a native feature, without the need of mapping a shortcut.
- waterhouse 11y agoI used this for a long time: alias log='(date; cat) >>' ~> log file.txt Some log lines. Followed by a control-D. ^D ~> log file.txt And some more. ^D ~> cat file.txt Sat Feb 27 00:16:49 PST 2016 Some log lines. Followed by a control-D. Sat Feb 27 00:17:04 PST 2016 And some more. But then I wanted to be able to write to the same logfile from a few terminals at once without interleaving the lines, so: (fish syntax) function log set --local the_log $HOME/incomplete-logs/$argv[1]-(date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S") date >> $the_log rlwrap cat >> $the_log and cat $the_log >> $argv[1] and mv $the_log (dirname $the_log)/../completed-logs/ end
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- blakeyrat 11y agoIt's not an Easter Egg, it's right there in the Edit menu. Always has been, AFAIK.
- mrestko 11y agoI believe adding ".LOG" to the beginning of file also automatically inserts the date each time you open the file so you can use it as a journal. I don't have access to Windows right now to test that though.
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- Animats 11y agoOn Windows 7, try this: Ctrl+Windows logo key+Tab Microsoft calls this "Aero Flip Mode". Probably not in Windows 10, where the interface was made to look More Like Mobile.